Associate Full-Stack Engineer, Front-End Leaning

Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.

Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.

The role

We're looking for an outstanding engineer to push our platform to the next level. You'll join us at a crucial stage of accelerated development for the company, product and team. As part of a small, highly collaborative group, you'll drive our product and team to new heights.

Encord is growing rapidly, with our product as the key driver of that growth. A year ago, we were a team of 50; now, we're over 100 and continuing to accelerate.

What You'll Do

• Take end-to-end ownership of your projects, from product, design and architectural decisions through to deployment, monitoring and measuring impact on users
• Work across the full stack, covering everything from deployment to styling
• Take initiative, be proactive in problem-solving, and continuously seek improvements
• Tackle complex domains and immense scale with simple, elegant solutions
• Collaborate with a lean, high-trust team to solve challenging problems together

• A builder: You enjoy all aspects of building not only software but a complete product, and are comfortable moving across the stack when necessary. You enjoy problem solving and thinking from first principles
• Impact-driven: You want your work to have a tangible outcome for people. You're not satisfied building products that don't see the light of day or move a number by a tenth of a percent
• Comfortable with uncertainty: You're happy to tackle problems without a predefined clear definition or obvious solution, and are excited to have the autonomy to make decisions as you go
• A team player: You understand that being a member of a high-performing team means contributing your best work while helping others contribute theirs

• Personally developed and maintained multiple systems from scratch, or significantly contributed to major changes to existing systems
• Strong understanding of the trade-offs involved in building reliable, performant software at speed
• Experience with Python and/or TypeScript (prior experience appreciated but not required — we are technology agnostic and welcome those open to learning)
• Familiarity with any of the following is a bonus: React, Kubernetes, GCP, PyTorch, CUDA, Ray

• We are technology agnostic at Encord and not looking for experience across all of these — as long as you're open to learning, please apply.
• Backend: Python
• Frontend: TypeScript and React
• Deployment: Kubernetes
• Infrastructure: GCP
• Machine Learning: PyTorch, CUDA, Ray
  

• Competitive salary, commission, and equity in a high-growth start-up
• Strong in-person culture — most of the team works from our London office 4+ days/week
• 25 days annual leave + UK public holidays
• Annual learning & development budget
• Travel for customer visits, events, and conferences across the UK and Europe
• Company lunches twice a week
• Monthly socials & bi-annual team offsites